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Jill Stein hurts Donald Trump more than Kamala Harris, poll suggests (www.newsweek.com)
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A new poll suggests that Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is drawing more voters from former President Donald Trump than from Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to a Noble Predictive Insights survey released last week, Harris holds a narrow lead over Trump in a hypothetical three-way race. With Stein on the ballot, Harris' lead expands, pointing to a potential spoiler effect similar to what many Democrats blamed Stein for doing to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

For Trump, the emergence of Stein as a potential spoiler may be a critical factor in battleground states, where even a small shift in votes could determine the outcome. For Harris, Stein's candidacy could paradoxically provide an unexpected advantage, drawing votes from Trump and narrowing his pathway to victory.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago

Funny if true.

She can still go fuck herself.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago

Nobody hurts volcel-kamala likevolcel-kamala

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I'm struggling really hard to see which voter is on the fence between Trump and Stein. Wouldn't it be more likely to be on the fence between Stein and Harris, or Stein and the couch?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago

Jill Stein is providing spite voters an option to not vote for Donald Trump.

Hillary took a lot of friendly fire in 2016 from the Bernie Bros who were not too happy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I think Trump draws a lot of broad support from his 'anti-establishment' rhetoric so it kinda makes sense for folks to look to other anti-establishment candidates as an alternative to him. There's a tendency to look down upon Trump voters as only right wingers, conspiracists etc and not really understand that a lot of his support is superficial and based on limited information.

In a way it's not so much that Stein or other left candidates are spoilers for the establishment Dems but more the case that figures like Trump are spoilers for progressive alternatives to the establishment.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

[email protected] about to lose their minds with rage.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 hour ago

What's with .ml obsession with stein anyhow? Is it the links to Putin? I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I won't believe a single poll until this election is over. There is so much incentive for misinformation out there it is unbearable. Just get out and vote.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

speech-side-r-2 smuglord

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

Jill Stein releases a statement: "To be clear, I only want Kamala votes please! Only former Kamala voters!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

"No shit," seth suggests.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Yay!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What about four-way race? Some states still have RFK on the ballot 🥴

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

In Illinois, we had RFK and no Jilly-bean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Yep. Thought that was weird since he dropped out.